Maine’s public universities are fighting for every student they can get.

Carnegie Mellon University may have found a way to expand its reach in Acatar, a flipped-classroom platform provider that also helps institutions offer for-credit courses online.

A faculty panel in the School of Economics at Peking University, in Beijing, has voted 30-3, with 1 abstention, to dismiss a professor who has been an outspoken critic of the Chinese government.

Young travellers represent 20% of the international tourism market, accounting for £138 billion of the £692 billion tourism spend in 2012, reveals the global membership body via its New Horizons III report, which updates previous research into the youth travel market conducted in 2002 and 2007

Inside One Equity Partners are as many as eight Olympians and even more of their world- or Olympic gold medals, said managing partner Dick Cashin, who competed internationally as a rower and now hires former college athletes while recommending others do the same.

The European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) provides a legal basis for the creation of an online marketplace for academic credit that could be exploited by massive open online course providers, conference speakers have argued.

The initial early application deadline for campuses including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Georgia Institute of Technology came and went yesterday, and hundreds of students missed it.

Between hovering parents and tiger mums, a growing number of children are getting tutoring outside the classroom in many countries around the world.

College freshmen — not test scores or advisers — soon will have the final say in whether students need academic help.

A majority of Americans believe online instruction is at least as good as classroom-based courses in terms of providing good value ...